Gearbox Software announces Battleborn, calling their next game a
"hero shooter," due to a focus on characters in this first-person shooter
coming next year to Windows, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4. They
offer a Battleborn reveal
trailer with a sentimentally violent cinematic, and say there are further details
in the new issue of
GameInformer magazine (online now, in print next month) and to expect a month of revelations on the
Game Informer Battleborn
hub. Here's word:

We’re calling Battleborn a “hero shooter” in that
it’s a first-person shooter focused on characters above all else. No
first-person shooter has ever had this much character variety, and we’re excited
for you to see the first batch of heroes today.

Battleborn involves our heroes – called the battleborn, conveniently enough –
teaming up to fight the Varelsi, an unstoppable menace trying to destroy the
last star in a dying universe. You can play with up to four friends in our
five-player cooperative campaign, or try out one of several different
competitive multiplayer match types in games of up to 10 players.

This is like a parody of bad video game trailers. Someone really likes this song but couldn't figure out how to make it fit with a trailer so they just told the animators "just like, put a bunch of characters in and make them shoot at stuff." Not to mention it doesn't tell us anything about the game, but then again, asking for a trailer to tell us anything is probably a lost hope by now.

OpticNerve wrote on Jul 8, 2014, 16:25:Almost everything about this trailer looked a bit cheap and forced, especially from using an M83 song to try and get some sort of emotion that doesn't suit the badly animated and designed visuals. Hell, even the fonts used aren't that fitting :/

Expected a LOT more design and visual flair from Gearbox after their fantastic Borderlands trailers.

I KNEW I knew that song from somewhere. Cloud Atlas trailer!

And I agree, this trailer was kind of boring. I guess it communicated something though: "Look! We got lots of different cool characters you can play with! It's WoW meets Team Fortress!"

Almost everything about this trailer looked a bit cheap and forced, especially from using an M83 song to try and get some sort of emotion that doesn't suit the badly animated and designed visuals. Hell, even the fonts used aren't that fitting :/

Expected a LOT more design and visual flair from Gearbox after their fantastic Borderlands trailers.